Nature connectedness through the arts: Co-creating a curriculum to support pupil wellbeing in primary schools

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Nature connectedness through the arts: Co-creating a curriculum to support pupil wellbeing in primary schools

Majid, Nasreen; Taylor, Lucy; Dees, Jim; (2023) Nature connectedness through the arts: Co-creating a curriculum to support pupil wellbeing in primary schools. (BCF Curriculum Investigation Grant Research Reports , pp. pp. 1-25 ). BERA: London, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

The overarching aims of this project were first to understand how a group of year 5 pupils form connections with nature through the arts to support their wellbeing. The project further aimed to understand how these pupils conceptualise the notion of a nature-connected curriculum that, at its heart, aspires to support pupil wellbeing in primary schools. The project used the research from Walshe et al. (2022) to highlight how such an approach builds pupils’ eco-capabilities to support long-term wellbeing as a result of being immersed in nature. A range of activities took place across the academic year 2022–23 to build skills to support pupils to understand their sense of belonging in nature and enable them to look at nature with a range of lenses. A mosaic approach, adapted from Clark and Moss (2011), was used to capture a wide range of data to understand first how pupils can be supported to develop a sense of connecting with nature through the arts to enhance their wellbeing and second how this scaffolding could enable pupils to develop a bespoke curriculum to support wellbeing in primary schools. The project incorporated a living willow sculpture as part of the legacy and focal point of the work. A resident artist visited the school in February 2023 to work with the year 5 cohort to develop a willow sculpture of a ‘bee’. This enabled pupils to incorporate the skills they had developed in their design and technology (DT) lessons of designing and building dens. Four research questions were used to frame the development and delivery of this project.

Type:	Report
Title:	Nature connectedness through the arts: Co-creating a curriculum to support pupil wellbeing in primary schools
Open access status:	An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version:	https://www.bera.ac.uk/publication/nature-connecte...
Language:	English
Additional information:	© The Author(s), 2023. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives License 4.0 (CC-BY-NC-ND), where it is permissible to download and share the work provided it is properly cited. The work cannot be changed in any way or used commercially without permission from the journal. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
UCL classification:	UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Curriculum, Pedagogy and Assessment
URI:	https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181158